Oasis tickets sell out as tech issues frustrate fans
Would-be attendees of the Britpop band’s first reunion in 16 years spent hours online getting error messages and getting kicked off websites
Tickets for next year’s Oasis reunion tour sold out by Saturday evening, though fans eager to see the band play live for the first time in 16 years complained of technical issues and long online waits that often ended in disappointment.
Fans trying to access the three websites selling the tickets – Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Gigsandtours – reported issues including error messages and being kicked off before they could purchase tickets.
It was expected that more than a million tickets for the band’s gigs would sell out within minutes. Instead, the band announced all the tickets in Britain had been sold 10 hours later after many fans had spent the day in online queues.
“There has got to be a fairer, simpler, more efficient way of selling tickets,” said Dan Walker, the British television presenter, on X. “In the queue, out of the queue, refresh / don’t refresh, wait in line, back of the line.”
Ticketmaster earlier said its website has not crashed, and the queue was moving along as fans bought tickets.
Gigsandtours thanked people for their patience and said there had been “extremely high demand”.